I'm ready for a week of school vacation.

And I was just telling another neighborhood parent how I am all ready for school to start back up.

I wish I had taken this week off too. DO not want to go back to work tomorrow.

We have daycare today. YAY!

Noah and I had an argument this morning which resulted in him peeing on the floor. Can this stage end please? In another hour and 20 minutes, he'll be at daycare.

Noah and I had an argument this morning which resulted in him peeing on the floor.

This happens with my cat! For kitties, though, this stage never ends.

I don't mind the out of synch ness as a grownup, because I can just read it as from another era, but I can see how it would be confusing to a child. I read this series of books starting to be written in the 1910's- Grace Harlowe, and it show her going to high school and college and then on adventures in WWI later on. The cutest thing is that at the girls college, they all had "crushes" and wrote each other little love notes and had dates everyone thought it was perfectly acceptable! I can imagine someone reading that today really getting their panties in a twist, but also that is totally not accepted today whereas I believe it was normal at the time.

mac is with a friend for the day. I spoke with her last night and let her know we had a 6pm appt. I learn this morning when she picks him up at 8:15 that her plan is to take him to a 3:45 movie that will get out at like 5:15. I am just unclear why with the whole day to play with this was her choice. I am unclear on people's choices a lot recently though. I'll be at the theater to pick him up and get to the appointment. You know what I think it is now that I write it down, I think people without kids (or without kids like mac) do not get how hard transitions are. It is a hard thing to explain to people and since he rarely shows his non-coping self to others people often doubt that there is an issue.

The kids are excited about watching the Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Manchester City today. It's cute. I don't know if they'll find it as interesting as they think, but I think they're curious about seeing the pros play. They had a good Christmas haul led by the Wii and Mario Kart.

Good luck with the school break msbelle. Leif drives my wife crazy and he sounds a lot easier than mac. With Leif it's just the constant activity, talking, and experiments.

And I was just telling another neighborhood parent how I am all ready for school to start back up.

By 5pm today, I'll be ready for school to start back up. I think I meant "ready" in the "girded my loins" sense.

I think people without kids (or without kids like mac) do not get how hard transitions are. It is a hard thing to explain to people and since he rarely shows his non-coping self to others people often doubt that there is an issue.

People (and many family members) thought I was crazy for getting Owen tested for autism. They really didn't see some of the more frustrating aspects of his daily life.

With Leif it's just the constant activity, talking, and experiments.

We must never introduce Leif to Olivia. Seriously.

Noah and I had an argument this morning which resulted in him peeing on the floor. Can this stage end please?

BTDT. NEVER want to go back.

With Leif it's just the constant activity, talking, and experiments.

yes, this minus the experiements. What mac really wants is for me to play with him the entire day, which is lovely on one hand, but playing with him is a chore. He contributes almost nothing to the play (this is what they work on in therapy). So you have figures and you are making up a dialogue and moving them around endlessly with virtually no interaction from him but to swoop around you making sound effects that have nothing to do with the narrative. Then he will just disrupt what you are doing with no explanation and no ability to tell you what he wants to happen in the play, but he wants you to continue and he gets upset if you don't seem like you are enjoying it. 15-20 min of that at a time is my limit. My brain goes pretty quickly to chores that need doing around the house. This is why peer playdates are AWESOME because they entertain each other with the low-developed play.

We did play 2 board games the other night for about an hour, but mac was rolling around and hopping about for about half that time, which again, just calls for patience that I have to call up from the land of make-believe.

ION - Oh we oh we oh - The Time is on my Pandora.

IOON - The office is super empty. I should get through all the invoices which don't require input from others. Then on to reimbursables.

I just got an e-mail request for a meeting with my boss's boss--apparently, my boss broke her ankle over the weekend, and he wants to meet to discuss coverage for her while she's out! It's a severe enough break that she's having surgery tomorrow to put in some pins, ouch.